Back To School Block Party From I Am Beacon and Key Food Is A Success

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The annual Beacon Back 2 School Block Party from I Am Beacon and Key Food was a success ☀️ Thank you for the opportunity to participate as a community table. Thank you to those ALBB readers 📰 who came over to say “Hi.” Love knowing you’re out there. It’s part of why we pop up this tent to paint faces. 📖 You all are the characters in the pages we publish - it’s your story.

Kenya Gadsden was the MC, encouraging tea and keeping the beat moving through raffle winners. So many community tables were out to give people the chance to meet these resources face to face.

Mayor Lee Kyriacou visited tables, Councilperson Lastar Gorton participated, and former Councilperson and current Dutchess Legislator Molly Rhodes attended.

The Girl Scouts were there, For Beacon Schools , Beacon Fire, and Police, CareFull MD Walk-In Clinic and Urgent Care, PTOs, Twins Athletics , Beacon Hoops , ChalkWaker Steve , Sun River Health, and many more known and new faces circulated. See you next at Spirit of Beacon Day¸ Sunday, September 27th, 2026!

Here are the faces ALBB painted this year at the Block Party:

Next Block Party Cookout: I Am Beacon's Back 2 School Block Party

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The next block party cookout at South Avenue Park above Loopers Plaza will be the annual Back 2 School Block Party on Saturday, August 22, 2026. This highly anticipated event usually coincides with a final basketball game of Beacon Hoops down at Loopers Plaza court, followed by hamburger’s and hotdogs at in the meadow of South Avenue Park, below the City of Beacon Parks and Recreation Center.

The theme is to “Stuff the Bus” with school supplies. Kids who attend come away with a free bag of school supplies while supplies last. In order to get a bag, kids must go around to the businesses and organizations who have registered for the event.

A Little Beacon Blog will be there offering free face painting at our table. Come say hi!

See ALBB’s Calendar of Events for this and other Things To Do In Beacon.

Trade Us A Plastic Bag For An ALBB Tote Bag At Back To School Block Party

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This Saturday is the 5th Annual Back To School Block Party and School Supply Drive from I Am Beacon, in partnership with Key Food at the South Avenue Park, just up the hill from the basketball courts and Beacon Dental. There will be games, food, music, and basketball!

A Little Beacon Blog will also be there, and wants to trade you one of our tote bags for a plastic bag! While supplies last (we have 19!), you can have a free tote bag when you bring one plastic bag. One tote bag per person. We’ll collect the plastic bags and stuff them into the plastic bag collection bin at Key Food.

Plastic bags don’t go into home recycling cans because they float around the recycling center and get into the machines, causing major problems. Start carrying a collection of totes, and skip the plastic bag - from anywhere! It’s a tricky habit to start when you’re in a restaurant or a store, and pulling out a tote bag isn’t commonplace. Or if you’re in Walmart with those rotating wheels of plastic bags. But give it a try!

Free tote bags for the first 19 plastic bag trades, and then we’ll have them on sale for $10 (normally $18 on this website).

See you soon!